A mother who was told she was beating breast cancer has instead died of Coronavirus, leaving her six children orphans, international media report.
Just weeks ago, Sundee Rutter was told she was beating breast cancer, CNN reports. But suddenly she was dying of a different disease, and her six children were saying goodbye -- from the other side of a window.
Rutter, 42, died on March 16 in Everett, Washington, after contracting Coronavirus.
Her children, ages 13 to 24, were losing another parent, eight years after their father died. They gathered outside her hospital room, and staff came up with an arrangement to let them talk to her.
"They took a walkie-talkie, and they placed (it) right by her bedside, on the pillow," her son Elijah Ross-Rutter, 20, told CNN's Alisyn Camerota on Wednesday.
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